Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 2 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 3 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 4 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 5 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 6 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 7 | If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace . |
| 8 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 9 | remember ours , it would not be flat smells of cat but not only that if it weed on me carpet as much as I love it I might get a |
| 10 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 11 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |
| 12 | Shirley Armitage does n't give up easily and when it comes to vital care for her elderly mother , she 's prepared for a battle . |
| 13 | It would end up longer than when it started , right ? |
| 14 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 15 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 16 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 17 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 18 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 19 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 20 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 21 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 22 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 23 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 24 | No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then |
| 25 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 26 | From the village centre , the Thornton road descends sharply initially and when it levels , a side road called Oddies Lane turns off to the right . |
| 27 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 28 | You 've got to look at the other positive thing as well though that if it comes out as a target and there are specific training needs there throughout the |
| 29 | So you see , that needs to go in there so that when it prints it out again , we come and ask you |
| 30 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |